Police, accompanied by two settlers, search for the missing Sheep Farmer Baird and recover his stolen sheep. They come upon a camp of Aboriginal people who resist when they try to arrest them. One Aboriginal man is shot and killed and another, Pulgulta, is arrested.
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In response to Baird’s murder and the subsequent police shooting at Cape Radstock, the Lt. Governor ordered the Commissioner of Police and Protector of Aborigines to visit the area, investigate the circumstances, and make recommendations. They sailed via the Yalata from Adelaide on 6 December 1850, visited the scene and meet with Aboriginal people, before departing on 5 January 1851.
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Two Aboriginal men steal flour from an Aboriginal shepherd at Salt Creek.
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Mungulta and his wife arrested for spearing a sheep on Maurice’s Lake Hamilton run, but acquitted.
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